The city of Montreal presented its vision for a River to the Mountain urban walkway on Wednesday, linking two icons of the Montreal landscape along a pedestrian-friendly 3.8-kilometre stretch flowing along the city’s streets.

One evening in February 1885, at the clubhouse of the Montreal Snow Shoe Club, tucked away on the back side of Mount Royal, Mark Twain, George Washington Cable and their manager, James B. Pond, had the time of their lives.

Ste-Catherine St. probably has enough square footage available or under-utilized to welcome the Quinze40 tenants right now. But investors would rather demolish a swath of existing buildings, build new ones and provide non-revenue generating parking spaces to sell their televisions, boots and hammers.